Jean-Pierre Bemba

Jean-Pierre Bemba (4 November 1962-) is the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) rebel group-turned-political party and a member of the senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Bemba was born on 4 November 1962 in Bokada, Equateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and he was involved in selling aircraft, portable radios, and private television stations. Bemba became the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) rebel group during the Second Congo War in the early 2000s, and he was accused of eating pygmies and committing atrocities against civilians. Nevertheless, he entered politics and was in second place in the 2006 presidential election with the MLC, which became a political party after the war's end.